The strategy outlined in NSC-68 achieved ultimate victory, according to this view, with the collapse of the Soviet power and the emergence of a " new world order " centered on American liberal-capitalist values.

In 1950, Truman signed the top-secret policy plan NSC-68, which shifted foreign policy from passive to active containment.

NSC-68 largely shaped U. S. foreign policy in the Cold War for the next 20 years, and involved a decision to make Containment of Communist expansion a high priority.

Although George F. Kennan's theory of containment articulated a multifaceted approach for U. S. foreign policy in response to the perceived Soviet threat, NSC-68 recommended policies that emphasized military over diplomatic action.

NSC-68 was an important part of an overall shift in American foreign policy to a comprehensive containment strategy that was confirmed by successive administrations.

* April 17: United States State Department Director of Policy Planning Paul Nitze issues NSC-68, a classified brief, arguing for the adoption of containment as the cornerstone of United States foreign policy.

This policy was written as NSC-68, a classified report issued by the United States National Security Council in April 1950 and written by Paul Nitze, Kennan's successor as director of policy planning.

National Security Council Report 68 ( NSC-68 ) was a 58-page top secret policy paper issued by the United States National Security Council on April 14, 1950, during the presidency of Harry S. Truman.

In NSC-68, it can be defined as " a policy of calculated and gradual coercion.

Although the proposal was initially refused, implementation of NSC-68 shows the extent to which it marked a ' shift ' in US policy — not only toward the USSR, but toward all communist governments.

NSC-68 required that the United States must increase defence spending to as much as $ 50 billion per year from the original $ 13 billion set for 1950.

NSC-68 drew some criticism from senior government officials who believed the Cold War was being escalated unnecessarily.

Analyses ranges from Michael Hogan's belief that NSC-68 portrayed the threat " in the worst light possible " to providing an accurate picture of a genuine and growing threat.

Furthermore, it can be argued that NSC-68, as proposed by the NSC, addressed Truman's problem of being attacked from the American right following the " red scare " and Alger Hiss case.

While NSC-68 did not make any specific recommendations regarding the proposed increase in defense expenditures, the Truman Administration almost tripled defense spending as a percentage of the gross domestic product between 1950 and 1953 ( from 5 to 14. 2 percent ).

:* Paul Nitze: author of NSC-68, a foundational document in the U. S. Cold War strategy of containment.

* Paul H. Nitze-Drafter of NSC-68 creating the U. S. Cold War strategy of containment

" That said, the NSC-68 called for significant peacetime military spending, in which the U. S. possessed " superior overall power " and " in dependable combination with other like-minded nations.

" NSC-68 and the Soviet Threat: A New Perspective on Western Threat Perception and Policy Making ," Review of International Studies, 17, No. 1 ( January 1991 ), pp. 17-40 ; rejects notion that US misperceived and overreacted to Stalin's worldwide intentions ; she instead says that events after World War II in the Balkans and Korea demonstrate a legitimate basis for NSC 68 and the resulting military buildup.

Given the military-industrial requirements of the Cold War, the authors of the then secret National Security Council Report 68 ( NSC-68 ) proposed the US government undertake a massive permanent national economic expansion that would let it “ siphon off ” a part of the economic activity produced to support an ongoing military buildup to contain the Soviet Union.

" In a secret 1950 document, NSC-68, they proposed to strengthen their alliance systems, quadruple defense spending, and embark on an elaborate propaganda campaign to convince the U. S. public to fight this costly cold war.

* NSC-68: April 14, 1950.

NSC-68 shaped government actions in the Cold War for the next 20 years and has subsequently been labeled the " blueprint " for the Cold War.

The term was also used in the introduction to the hugely influential US Government Document known as NSC-68 written in April 1950.

Their report, NSC-68, was submitted directly to Truman in February 1950, who sent it to the NSC for a cost analysis.

NSC-68 explicitly stated that the Communists planned for world domination.

Truman was less than enthused about the large defense cost projections for NSC-68 and its implications for existing domestic budgetary spending priorities, and initially sent it back without comment to its authors for further analysis.

The Truman administration responded with a secret 1950 plan, NSC-68, designed to confront the Communists with large-scale defense spending.

The committee first met in 1950, founded by Tracy Voorhees, to promote the plans proposed in NSC-68 by Paul Nitze and Dean Acheson.

Kennan and Charles Bohlen another State Department expert on Russia, fought over the wording of NSC-68, which emerged as the blueprint for waging the Cold War.

Kennan even argued that NSC-68 should not have been drafted at all, as it would make U. S. policies too rigid, simplistic and militaristic.

Acheson overruled Kennan and Bohlen, backing up the view of the Soviet menace in NSC-68.

Kennan opposed the building of the hydrogen bomb and the rearmament of Germany, which were policies backed up by the assumptions of NSC-68.

In a secret 1950 document, NSC-68, they proposed to strengthen their alliance systems, quadruple defense spending, and embark on an elaborate propaganda campaign to persuade Americans to fight this costly cold war.

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In Mason ’ s opinion, the decision to sign the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact and to attack Poland and with it risking a war with Britain and France were the abandonment by Hitler of his foreign policy programme outlined in Mein Kampf and Zweites Buch forced on him by the need to stop a collapsing German economy by seizing territory abroad to be plundered

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In Mason ’ s opinion, the decision to sign the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union and to attack Poland and the running of the risk of a war with Britain and France were the abandonment by Hitler of his foreign policy programme outlined in Mein Kampf forced on him by his need to stop a collapsing German economy by seizing territory abroad to be plundered.

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